sane-artec(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-artec(5)NAMEsane-artec - SANE backend for Artec flatbed scanners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-artec library implements a SANE (Scanner Access
Now Easy) backend that provides access to Artec/Ultima
SCSI flatbed scanners. At present, the following scanners
are known to work at least partially with this backend:
Artec A6000C
Artec A6000C PLUS
Artec ViewStation AT3
BlackWidow BW4800SP (rebadged Artec AT3)
Artec ViewStation AT6
Artec ViewStation AT12
Artec AM12S
Plustek 19200S (rebadged Artec AM12S)
Although this manual page is generally updated with each
release, up-to-date information on new releases and extra-
neous helpful hints are available from the backend home-
page:
http://www4.infi.net/~cpinkham/sane/
DOCUMENTATIONCONFIGURATION
The contents of the artec.conf file are a list of device
names that correspond to Artec scanners. Empty lines and
lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. See
sane-scsi(5) on details of what constitutes a valid device
name.
Sample file:
# artec.conf
#
# this is a comment.
#
# this line says search for any SCSI devices which are
scanners and have
# a vendor string of 'ULTIMA'
scsi ULTIMA
#
# the next line forces the backend to assume the next
scanner found has
# the specified vendor string (useful for testing
rebadged models).
vendor ULTIMA
#
# the next line forces the backend to assume the next
scanner found has
# the specified model string (useful for testing
rebadged models).
model AT3
#
# now a line that actually specifies a device. The back-
end is going to
# assume this is an Artec/Ultima AT3 because we forced
the vendor and
# model above.
/dev/scanner
#
# once we hit a scanner device line, the forced vendor and
model
# string are
# 'forgotten', so the vendor and model for this next
device will be
# determined from the result of a SCSI inquiry.
/dev/sge
#
SCSI ADAPTER TIPS
Some Artec scanners come with an included SCSI adapter.
If your scanner came with a DTC ISA scsi cards, you can
probably use it with recent (>= 2.2.0) kernels using the
generic NCR5380 support. You must pass the following boot
argument to the kernel: "dtc3181e=0x2c0,0"
I do not have any information on the PCI SCSI adapter
included with some newer Artec scanners.
FILES
/usr/freeware/etc/sane.d/artec.conf
The backend configuration file (see also descrip-
tion of SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-artec.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/freeware/lib32/sane/libsane-artec.so
The shared library implementing this backend (pre-
sent on systems that support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT
SANE_CONFIG_DIR
This environment variable specifies the list of
directories that may contain the configuration
file. Under UNIX, the directories are separated by
a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated by a
semi- colon (`;'). If this variable is not set,
the configuration file is searched in two default
directories: first, the current working direc- tory
(".") and then in /usr/freeware/etc/sane.d. If the
value of the environment variable ends with the
directory separator character, then the default
directories are searched after the explicitly spec-
ified directories. For example, setting SANE_CON-
FIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directo-
ries "tmp/config", ".", and "/usr/free-
ware/etc/sane.d" being searched (in this order).
SANE_DEBUG_ARTEC
If the library was compiled with debug support
enabled, this environment variable controls the
debug level for this backend. E.g., a value of 128
requests all debug output to be printed. Smaller
levels reduce verbosity: SANE_DEBUG_ARTEC values
Number Remark
0 print important errors
1 print errors
2 print sense
3 print warnings
4 print scanner-inquiry
5 print informations
6 print less important informations
7 print major called procedures
8 print all called procedures
9 print procedure info/data messages
10 print called sane-init-routines
11 print called sane-procedures
12 print sane infos
13 print sane option-control messages
50 print verbose data/debug messages
== 100 print software RGB calibration data
== 101 print raw data from scanner to artec.data.raw file
== 128 print out all messages
Example:
export SANE_DEBUG_ARTEC=13
BUGS
Known bugs in this release: A6000C+ users with firmware
v1.92 or earlier have problems with the backend, the cause
has not been determined. Sometimes the backend is not
particularly robust, you can possibly lock up the SCSI bus
(and/or machine) by not having patience enough when scan-
ning. 3-channel gamma correction is not implemented and
single-channel gamma correction is not totally working on
models other than the AT3.
SEE ALSOsane(7), sane-scsi(5)AUTHOR
Chris Pinkham (cpinkham@infi.net) (does not exist any-
more?)
sane-backends 1.0.12 24 Jan 2000 sane-artec(5)
